INTERVIEW - Obama admits to mistakes, but no big ones (Reuters) Posted: 09 Nov 2009 05:44 PM PST Reuters - Barack Obama says he probably makes one mistake a day, but doesn't think he has made any fundamental ones in almost 10 months as president of the United States. |
Leaders hail Wall fall, vow to topple new barriers (Reuters) Posted: 09 Nov 2009 02:50 PM PST Reuters - World leaders hailed the ordinary people who helped bring down the Berlin Wall and said the historic events of 20 years ago showed nations were capable of rising to new challenges, from terrorism to climate change. |
India buys upgraded Israeli air defences for $1.1bn (Reuters) Posted: 09 Nov 2009 06:40 AM PST Reuters - Israel has signed a $1.1 billion contract to supply an upgraded tactical air defence system to India, with delivery expected by 2017, an Israeli official said on Monday. |
Crisis? At India forum, it's back to business as usual (Reuters) Posted: 09 Nov 2009 02:48 AM PST Reuters - After a year of global economic crisis and political limbo, investors in India are returning to business as usual -- this time with real hope that a new government might actually bring in needed financial reforms. |
Kraft CEO plays steady hand with Cadbury bid (Reuters) Posted: 09 Nov 2009 03:10 PM PST Reuters - Kraft Foods Inc chief Irene Rosenfeld refused to sweeten her $16.2 billion offer for candy maker Cadbury Plc and took the bid directly to shareholders on Monday, setting the stage for a takeover battle that could last up to three months. |
Bharti says price war temporary; to outsource more (Reuters) Posted: 09 Nov 2009 07:05 AM PST Reuters - The price war between Indian mobile operators, which has slashed call charges to around 1.3 U.S. cents a minute, will not last, the chief executive of Bharti Airtel said on Monday. |
Crocodiles "video blog" for survival (Reuters) Posted: 08 Nov 2009 09:38 PM PST Reuters - Call it video blogging for reptiles: conservationists are attaching cameras to the critically endangered Indian gharial, a crocodile-like creature, to understand more about its life in a bid to save it. |
Microsoft India seeing good response to Windows 7 (Reuters) Posted: 08 Nov 2009 11:06 PM PST Reuters - The Indian unit of Microsoft is seeing a good early response to Windows 7, its recently launched operating system, its chairman said on Monday. |
Pakistan qualify for 2010 World Cup in India (Reuters) Posted: 09 Nov 2009 01:18 AM PST Reuters - Pakistan booked a place at next year's World Cup in India by winning a qualifying tournament in France at the weekend. |
Reliance close to $6 bln overseas buy - paper (Reuters) Posted: 09 Nov 2009 01:23 AM PST Reuters - Energy giant Reliance Industries is close to a nearly $6 billion overseas acquisition and the likely target is the assets of petrochemicals firm LyondellBasell, the Economic Times reported on Monday, citing an unidentified banker. |
Suicide bomber kills three in Pakistan (Reuters) Posted: 09 Nov 2009 04:17 AM PST Reuters - A suicide bomber in an auto-rickshaw blew himself up in Pakistan on Monday, killing three people while four soldiers were killed in South Waziristan when militants struck back in their captured headquarters. |
INTERVIEW - Premature for Asian c.banks to exit easy policy - ADB (Reuters) Posted: 09 Nov 2009 12:29 AM PST Reuters - It is premature for Asian central banks to begin exiting from their extraordinarily loose monetary policies given the fragility of economic recovery, a top official with the Asian Development Bank said on Monday. |
GE hopes to build at least one Indian nuclear plant (Reuters) Posted: 08 Nov 2009 10:56 PM PST Reuters - General Electric Co expects to build at least one nuclear power plant in the country following last year's U.S.-India civil nuclear cooperation pact, a senior official said on Monday. |
Oil cos shut output in Gulf due to hurricane (Reuters) Posted: 08 Nov 2009 06:36 PM PST Reuters - U.S. oil companies were shutting production on Sunday as they evacuated workers from the Gulf of Mexico ahead of Hurricane Ida, which is forecast to roar across the offshore oil patch Monday before making landfall on Tuesday. |